Hussein Khalidi

Husayn al-Khalidi
Mayor of Jerusalem
In office
January 1935 – 1937
Preceded byRaghib al-Nashashibi
Succeeded byDaniel Auster
13th Prime Minister of Jordan
In office
15 April 1957 – 24 April 1957
MonarchKing Hussein
Preceded bySuleiman al-Nabulsi
Succeeded byIbrahim Hashem
Personal details
Born17 January 1895
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
Died6 February 1962 (age 67)
Political partyReform Party
RelationsIsmail al-Khalidi (brother)

Husayn Fakhri al-Khalidi (Arabic: حسين فخري الخالدي, Ḥusayn Fakhri al-Khalidī, 1895 – 6 February 1962) was mayor of Jerusalem from 1935 to 1937 and the 13th Prime Minister of Jordan in 1957.

Early life

Khalidi served as a doctor in the Ottoman Army during World War I, and was injured three times. He subsequently served for over a decade as a member of Jerusalem's Health Department and as an Inspector of Jerusalem's Water Department.[1]

Political career

In September of 1934, Kalidi sought election as both as Mayor of Jerusalem and for Raghib al-Nashashibi's seat on the City Council. He won the latter,[2] and was subsequently appointed to the former on 21 January 1935, days after an appeal of the election results by Nasashibi was rejected by the Jerusalem District Court. Daniel Auster and Yacoub Farradj became Deputy Mayors.[3][4]

On 23 June 1935 Khalidi founded the Reform Party and was subsequently the party's representative to the Arab Higher Committee.[5]

al-Khalidi, seated in front, together with the four other deportees in Seychelles, 1938.

On 1 October 1937, amid the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the British Mandate administration outlawed the AHC and several Arab political parties and arrested a number of Arab political leaders. The Reform Party was dissolved and Khalidi was one of the leaders arrested.[6][7] He was removed as mayor of Jerusalem and deported to the Seychelles, together with four other Arab nationalist political leaders.[6] He was released in December 1938[7] to enable him to take part in the London Conference in February 1939, and was among those rejecting the British Government's White Paper of 1939.[8]

Khalidi returned to Mandatory Palestine in November 1942[9] and joined the reformed Arab Higher Committee in 1945, becoming its secretary in 1946. He was a member of the short-lived All-Palestine Government established under Egypt's patronage in Gaza in September 1948. He published a book of his memoirs in the same year, while exiled in Beirut.[10] He prospered under Jordanian rule, he was custodian and supervisor of the Haram al-Sharif in 1951, became a cabinet minister (for Foreign Affairs) and briefly prime minister in 1957.[11] In 1958, he wrote a book in English entitled Arab Exodus, though it has never been published.[10]

Khalidi died on 6 February 1962.[12] He was the brother of Ismail Khalidi and the uncle of Rashid Khalidi and Raja Khalidi.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ "נבחרי ערבים". Haaretz. National Library of Israel. 1934-09-28. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
  2. ^ "פצצת נשאשיבי". Haaretz. 1934-09-28. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
  3. ^ "בעיריות ובמועצות בארץ ישראל". ⁨⁨Yedioth Iriath Tel-Aviv. National Library of Israel. 1935. p. 19. Retrieved 2024-10-06.
  4. ^ "מינוי ד"ר כאלדי לראש עיריית ירושלים". Haaretz. National Library of Israel. 1934-01-20. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
  5. ^ Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine, 1945-1948: 1945-1948, By Haim Levenberg, Routledge, 1993, p. 7
  6. ^ a b A Survey of Palestine - prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. Reprinted 1991 by the Institute of Palestine Studies, Washington. Volume II. ISBN 0-88728-214-8. p.949
  7. ^ a b Saphire, William B. (1945-07-06). "Arab Propaganda Invades Canada and United States". The Canadian Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  8. ^ Kessler, Oren (2023). Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict. Lanham Boulder New York London: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 135–138, 207. ISBN 978-1-5381-4880-8.
  9. ^ "ד"ר חאלדי חוזר לירושלים". Haaretz. National Library of Israel. 1942-11-18. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  10. ^ a b [1] Archived 2016-02-06 at the Wayback Machine Episode 4
  11. ^ A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel, Gudrun Krämer, translated by Graham Harman, Princeton University Press, 2008, p. 258
  12. ^ A different date is given by:Hussein Fakhri Al-Khalidi, however more resources, such as the NYT article: HUSSEIN KHALIDI OF JORDAN DEAD, February 8, 1962, give the date of 6 February 1962
  13. ^ ISMAIL KHALIDI, 52, U.N. OFFICIAL, DIES, New York Times, September 6, 1968
Political offices
Preceded by Prime Minister of Jordan
1957 		Succeeded by